Another fatal
accident occurred at Biter's Place, a mile east of the village
(Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.), on Monday evening. A man named
Robert St. Claire was engaged in drawing hay into the barn. For
some reason it was necessary to draw the wagon in backwards by
hitching the team to the hind axletree. The sliding door in the
back part of the barn was not pushed entirely back, and the
unfortunate man, who was driving the team, in some way got his head
between the door and the hayrack as the two came into collision. He
was killed instantly, and when taken up his brain was oozing from
the fractures in his skull. It is presumed that the team, having
got considerable headway in drawing the load up the steep slide in
front of the barn, pulled the driver along in his endeavors to
check them and finally caught him in the way we have described. The
man was evidently in the act of dodging to get under the rack, as
it would have taken him somewhere in the breast had he been
standing erect.

Mr. St. Clair was
about 27 years of age. He leaves a wife, near confinement, and one
child. He was a son-in-law of Mr. Bass, residing near where the
accident occurred.